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Almanac: Week: 24 \ Day: 161
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 76°\L 56° Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind
ave: 3mph\Gusts: 16mph
Ave. High: 78° Record High: 87°
(1910) Ave. Low: 40° Record
Low: 28° (1998)
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Observances Today:
Alcoholics Anonymous (Founders) Day
Ball Point Pen Day
Iced Tea Day
National Yo-Yo Day
Day of Portugal (Portugal)
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Observances This Week:
International Clothesline Week:6-13
Bed Bug Awareness Week:7-13
Black Single Parents Week:7-13
Jim Thorpe Native American Games:7-13
National Body Piercing Week:7-13
National Business Etiquette Week:7-13
National Headache Awareness Week:7-13
Pet Appreciation Week:7-13
Rip Current Awareness Week:7-13
National Automotive Service
Professionals Week:8-14
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1639 - 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina
(Wilmington Delaware)
1652 - In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in
America
1682 - Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3 ft
diameter oak tree
1760 - NY passes 1st effective law regulating
practice of medicine
1768 - British customs officials seize John
Hancock's ship, "The Liberty", on the suspicion that Hancock had
illegally unloaded cargo without paying duties a month earlier
1793 - Washington supersedes Philadelphia as US
capital
1809 - 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage
leaves NY for Phila
1847 - Chicago Tribune begins publishing
1899 - Improved Benevolent & Protective Order
of Elks forms in Cincinnati
1903 - After two hours of
torrential rain eleven people were known drowned and many others were missing
in Clifton, Arizona.
1905 - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in
operation, Greenville, Me
1939 – Beryl Webster and
Charles Frazier marry in Denver
1939 - MGM cartoon character Barney Bear debuts
1963 - US President JFK signs law for
equal pay for equal work for men & women
1977 - Apple Computer ships its first Apple II
computers
1977 - James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer)
escapes from prison
1985
- Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their
99-year-old formula
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Today’s World Events through History
1540 - Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminster
1793 - 1st public zoo opens in Paris
1865 - Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st
performance Munich Germany
1911 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in
Amsterdam
1916 - Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling
Ottoman turks
1956 - 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open
in Stockholm
1967 - Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end
"6-Day War" with UN help
1988 - Greatest number of participants (31,678) on
a bicycle tour (London)
2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes
Lebanon's first female saint Saint Rafqa
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
The hurricanes near Baja, CA keep sending lots of moisture to our
fair city and our state. We are still in a drought, but June is usually a very
dry month. Thankfully this year, our forest is wet and the fire danger is very
low. This is very good news.
Technology has certainly changed our country in many ways. Now
another police officer has resigned after he got involved with a teenage girl
at a pool party. At some point in time, the various police departments will
understand that every incident will have video taken, either by the police or
by bystanders. Historically, in so many cases without video footage, the police
officer was believed and the bystanders and accused are assumed to be in the
wrong. Few would speak out against the police, for fear of retaliation in the
future. Now is the time for change. Certainly many officers and departments have
it right, but sadly, many do not.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In
this teaser, your job is to discover the missing word that links the two given
words. The dashes indicate the number of letters in the missing word. Good
luck!
i.e. WAR - FARE - WELL
1. ARM _ _ _ _ _ LIFT
2. CREAM _ _ _ _ ADDER
3. WOOD _ _ _ _ BENCH
4. SHOULDER _ _ _ _ _ POCKET
5. CANDY _ _ _ _ WASHER
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… Celebrity Facts…
Rick Harrison of the hit reality show Pawn Stars, dropped out of
high school in 10th grade because he was making $2000 a week selling fake Gucci
bags.
When Will Ferrell met RHCP drummer Chad Smith he looked him up and
down and said: “You´re very handsome,” and then walked away.
…Cool Facts…
There's a regenerative candle that creates a new candle as it
melts.
There are coffee houses in Russia where food and drink are free,
but you pay for time.
Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8
hours.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The tourist season has begun with essentially all 3,500 hotel and
motel rooms in town taken. The Chamber of Commerce is operating Room Bank to
help visitors find accommodation. Flows at the Wildcat wastewater treatment
plant indicate lots of visitors in town.
On Saturday at 2 a.m. , a fire started in the
brush adjacent to the apartment buildings at 209 S. Elden St. One of the units
in the 4-building complex was destroyed and several families displaced. The
cause is under investigation.
A Sobriety Checkpoint was established by the state Department of
Public Safety in cooperation with the Flagstaff Police and the Coconino County
Sheriff’s Office.
…Harper’s Index…
29 –
percentage of African Americans who said in 2012 that gun ownership protects
more people than it endangers
54 – who say
so today
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
The first U.S. dog guide was a German Shepherd named “Buddy.” He
was presented to Morris Frank in 1927.
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2 jokes for the day
Three leaders of the big beer companies meet
for a drink. The president of Budweiser orders a Bud, Miller's president orders
a Miller and the president of Coors orders a Coors. When it is Guinness' turn
to order he orders a soda.
"Why didn't you order a Guinness?" everyone asks.
"Nah," Guinness replies, "If you guys aren't having a beer
neither will I."
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During a bank heist the Chief told the Sgt. to
cover all exits so the robbers could not get away.
Later the Sgt. reports to the chief.
"Sorry sir but they got away."
The chief very disappointed says, "I told you to cover all Exits!"
"I did" replied the Sgt. "but they got away through the
Entrance."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
SAN
FRANCISCO, June 8 (Reuters) - A squirrel knocked out power for some 45,000
energy customers in the San Francisco Bay area on Monday, according to
officials and the local Contra Costa Times newspaper.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company said on its Twitter account that service had
been restored for virtually all those affected by the outage about 10:15 p.m.
local time, but it did not provide a cause for the disruption.
PG&E spokesman J.D. Guidi told the Contra Costa Times that power was down
in cities east of San Francisco, including Berkeley and Oakland, on Monday
night after a squirrel "impacted equipment" at the El Cerrito
substation. He gave no details
The downtown Berkeley station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system was closed
for several hours on Monday due to the outage, the agency said on its Twitter
account.
Cities to the south, including San Jose, also suffered outages on Monday that
Guidi said were caused by equipment failures due to triple-digit temperatures.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
In
1596, an inventor named John Harrington, godson to Queen Elizabeth I, tried to
create a more advanced chamber pot. The queen and her godson both used the
flush model he came up with, but Harrington was ridiculed by his peers for
fooling around with such a ridiculous idea, thus ending his career as an
inventor.
In 1857, New Yorker Joseph C. Gayetty produced the first packaged bathroom
tissue in the United States. It was called "The Therapeutic Paper"
and contained aloe for added comfort. The company sold the paper in packs of
500 sheets at 50 cents apiece, and Gayetty's name was printed on every sheet.
A lot of people think a public toilet seat is the filthiest place on Earth, but
that may not be true. According to experts, the floor of a public bathroom is
much dirtier, with around two million bacteria per square inch - that's 200
times higher than what's considered a sanitary surface.
Not so long ago, unless you were wealthy and enjoyed eating at expensive
restaurants, washroom attendants were not people you'd come into much contact
with. Now, in both the U.S. and United Kingdom, washroom attendants are
becoming regular public bathroom "fixtures."
In places like India and in many parts of Asia, bathrooms provide a cup of
water, but no toilet paper. When you're done doing your business, it's
customary to use your left hand to wash your bum and then wash your hand with
the cup of water. This is precisely why it's rude to shake hands with your left
hand in most of Asia and the Middle East.
Did you know that public restrooms have a watchdog? The American Restroom
Association has a clear mission: "The ARA advocates for the availability
of clean, safe, well-designed public restrooms."
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Birthday’s Today
94 - Philip Mountbatten, Greece, Duke of
Edinburgh/Prince, Mr Elizabeth II
93 - Rose Moffard, (acting Gov-AZ)
82 - F Lee Bailey, Waltham Mass, attorney
(Sam Shepard case, OJ case)
72 - Jeff Greenfield, media commentator
(Firing Line, Nightline)
70 - Ron Glass, Evansville Ind, actor (Ron-Barney Miller)
50 - Elizabeth Hurley, English actress
(Christabel)
33 - Tara Lipinski, figure skater (1997
World Champ)
31 - Leelee Sobieski, New York City, actress
(Deep Impact, Joan of Arc, Uprising)
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Remembered for being born today
1835-1930@94 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator
1915-2005@89 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American
author (Nobel 1976)
1890-1973@84 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japan, actor (Bridge
on River Kwai)
1928-2012@83 - Maurice Sendak, author/illustrator
(Where The Wild Things Are)
1895-1952@57 - Hattie McDaniel, 1st African American
actress to win an Oscar
1922-1969@47 - Judy Garland, [Frances Gumm], actress/singer
(Wizard of Oz)
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Historical Obits Today
Louis
L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie)-1980@80
Richard
Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), suicide-1993@77
Ray
Charles, Grammy winning crooner gospel and blues, liver disease-2004@73
Jack
Johnson, 1st African American world heavyweight boxing champion, car
accident-1946@68
Spencer
Tracy, actor (Father ot Bride), heart attack-1967@67
John
Gotti, American gangster, cancer in prison-2002@61
El Cid [Rodrigo
Diaz de Vivar], Spanish general strategist, famine-1099@59
Alexander
the Great, Macedonian king, fever-323BC@32,
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. ARM (CHAIR) LIFT
2. CREAM (PUFF) ADDER
3. WOOD (WORK) BENCH
4. SHOULDER (PATCH) POCKET
5. CANDY (DISH) WASHER
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or
disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually
checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains
mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it
and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the
Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
